Domingo Dulce y Garay

Domingo Dulce y Garay (7 May 1808-23 November 1869) was Captain-General of Spanish Cuba from 1862 to 1866 (succeeding Francisco Serrano y Dominguez and preceding Francisco Lersundi Hormaechea) and from January to June 1869 (succeeding Lersundi and preceding Felipe Ginoves del Espinar).

Biography
Domingo Dulce y Garay was born in Sotes, Spain in 1808, and he joined the Spanish Army in 1823. He fought in the both First Carlist War and the Second Carlist War, and he became a close friend of Baldomero Espartero, a fellow general and politician. He stifled the Moderate Party of Spain's 1841 plot to kidnap Queen Isabella II of Spain, and he went on to fight in the Second Carlist War. Dulce served as a Liberal Union of Spain senator from 1858 to 1860 and as Captain-General of Spanish Cuba from 1862 to 1866, but he earned enmity for his abolitionist views. He took part in the 1868 revolution which overthrew Isabella, but he was banished to the Canary Islands for his role in progressive conspiracies. He returned to Cuba a few months before his death; on 9 January 1869, he declared freedom of printing. He died in the French town of Amelie-les-Bains in November.